The Ballads of Scotland, Volume 1William Edmondstoune Aytoun |
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... Scottish Ballads , I am anxious , if possible , to guard myself against the charge of presumption . No such charge could be founded upon the mere fact of collection ; but the task of collation is of a delicate and arduous nature , and ...
... Scottish Ballads , I am anxious , if possible , to guard myself against the charge of presumption . No such charge could be founded upon the mere fact of collection ; but the task of collation is of a delicate and arduous nature , and ...
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... Scottish ballad - book would have been miserably shorn . If , on the other hand , each collector had printed , separately and apart , the whole of the material which he had acquired , our ballad - book would have swollen to such ...
... Scottish ballad - book would have been miserably shorn . If , on the other hand , each collector had printed , separately and apart , the whole of the material which he had acquired , our ballad - book would have swollen to such ...
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... Scottish ballads . These have hitherto been scattered through many volumes - some indeed common and popular , but others scarce , and one or two out of print , having been merely set in type for private circulation ; and the versions ...
... Scottish ballads . These have hitherto been scattered through many volumes - some indeed common and popular , but others scarce , and one or two out of print , having been merely set in type for private circulation ; and the versions ...
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... having secured , for the Scottish department , the able co - operation of Lord Hailes . All laud and honour be to the memory of Bishop Percy ! Among the Editors of British Minstrelsy he must ever be ranked INTRODUCTION . xxiii.
... having secured , for the Scottish department , the able co - operation of Lord Hailes . All laud and honour be to the memory of Bishop Percy ! Among the Editors of British Minstrelsy he must ever be ranked INTRODUCTION . xxiii.
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... Scottish poetry would have , so early , attracted the notice of the English public , or have been so heartily recognised as it is at the present time . Let those who doubt this view , recur to the pages of Churchill , or even later ...
... Scottish poetry would have , so early , attracted the notice of the English public , or have been so heartily recognised as it is at the present time . Let those who doubt this view , recur to the pages of Churchill , or even later ...
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Page lii - Up then crew the red, red cock, And up and crew the gray; The eldest to the youngest said,
Page 40 - He has gotten a coat of the even cloth, And a pair of shoes of velvet green ; And till seven years were gane and past, True Thomas on earth was never seen.
Page 39 - So thick beset with thorns and briers? That is the path of righteousness, Though after it but few enquires. 'And see ye not that braid braid road. That lies across that lily leven? That is the path of wickedness. Though some call it the road to heaven, 'And see ye not that bonny road That winds about the fernie brae?
Page 214 - And a harried man I think I be ! " There's naething left at the fair Dodhead, " But a waefu
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Page 4 - They hoysed their sails on Monenday morn, Wi' a' the speed they may ; They hae landed in Noroway, Upon a Wodensday. They hadna been a week, a week, In Noroway, but twae, When that the lords o' Noroway Began aloud to say, — 'Ye Scottishmen spend a' our King's goud, And a
Page 50 - Then up and gat the seventh o' them, And never a word spake he ; But he has striped his bright brown brand Out through Clerk Saunders